Brian Lawson Salmon
Brian Lawson Salmon CBE (30 June 1917 – June 2001), was a British businessman, the chairman of J. Lyons and Co. from 1972 to 1977, and the author of the Salmon Report on senior nursing staff structures and training.
Early life[edit]
Salmon was born on 30 June 1917, and educated at Malvern College.[1] He was the second of four sons of Julius Salmon (1888–1940) and his wife Emma Gluckstein, and a grandson of one of the founders of Lyons, Barnett Salmon.[2][3]
Career[edit]
Catering and hospitality[edit]
Salmon worked initially as a kitchen trainee and then as a food buyer in the family firm of Lyons.[1]
Salmon was in the RAF from 1940 to 1946, rising to senior catering officer.[3] He was the catering officer for the Indian sub-continent when there were "minor mutinies" over food complaints.[1] He returned to the UK with jaundice and worked in the bakery and then hotel divisions of Lyons, before joining the governing board in 1961.[1]
In the early 1960s, Salmon introduced the Wimpy hamburger to the UK, first in Lyons' cafes, then in a chain of Wimpy restaurants.[1]
Health services[edit]
From 1949, Salmon chaired the catering committee of Westminster Hospital. He later joined the hospital's governing body.[1]
In the 1960s, Salmon was appointed to chair the Salmon Report on senior nursing staff structures and training, which became "one of the bases of the modern profession".[1][3]
From 1974-7, Salmon was the chair of Camden and Islington Area Health Authority. He also worked with the Tavistock Institute, the Royal College of Nursing and the London & Provincial Nursing Trust.[1]
Later life[edit]
In 1972, he was appointed a CBE. On his retirement in 1977, he was succeeded as chairman by his brother Neil Salmon, who merged Lyons with Allied Breweries to become Allied Lyons.[1]
Personal life[edit]
In 1946, Salmon married Annette Mackay, and they had two sons and a daughter.[1] He died in June 2001, aged 83 or 84.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Brian Salmon". Daily Telegraph. 14 June 2001. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ "J. Lyons & Co". Kzwp.com. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
- ^ a b c W. Rubinstein; Michael A. Jolles (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Springer. p. 846. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6.